Grief and Loss in the LGBTQIA+ Experience
📅 Tuesday 14 October 2025 | 🕐 1:00–2:00 PM BST | 💻 Online | 🎟️ Free to attend
Grief is often seen as a private experience—but for LGBTQIA+ people, it can also be deeply collective, structural, and shaped by identity. In this important session, we’ll explore the distinct ways grief and loss impact LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities—and how workplaces can better recognise, support, and respond.
We’ll begin with a grounding in the emotional and psychological dimensions of grief before focusing on how these experiences show up—often invisibly—for LGBTQIA+ colleagues and clients. We’ll also examine how organisations can create inclusive, affirming responses that go beyond standard employee wellbeing offers.
✨ Attendees will gain:
A clear understanding of the core dimensions of grief and loss
Insight into how grief may uniquely affect LGBTQIA+ people and communities
Practical tools to support inclusive grief responses in the workplace
Considerations for embedding LGBTQIA+-affirming practitioners within your wellbeing strategy
This session is designed for HR professionals at every level—from advisors to CPOs—who want to build more responsive and compassionate workplaces. Whether you identify as LGBTQIA+ or as an ally, you’ll leave with greater awareness, deeper empathy, and the tools to lead with care.
🎤 Meet the Speakers
Dr Beverley Flint (she/her)
Chief Mental Health Programme Officer, Smart About Health | Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Dr Beverley Flint is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience in both the NHS and private sector. As Chief Mental Health Programme Officer at Smart About Health, she leads the development and delivery of mental health sessions, training, and programmes.
Bev has dedicated much of her career to supporting the wellbeing of colleagues and workforces. In recent years, her focus has been on helping businesses engage with employee mental health and wellbeing in meaningful, effective ways.
Rowan Humphries-Massey (they/them)
Founder and Thanatologist, Navigating the Wilderness CIC
Rowan is a grief equity advocate and national voice on grief literacy. Their work focuses on grief at the margins—LGBTQIA+ loss, racialised grief, disability, neurodivergence, and organisational endings. Through Navigating the Wilderness, they work to embed visibility and justice into grief support across communities, workplaces, and systems.
👉 Registration is free, but spaces are limited. Reserve your place today.